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Today we hear much talk of crisis and comparisons are often made with the Great Depression of the 1930s, but there is a crucial difference that sets our current malaise apart from the 1930s: today we no longer trust in the capacity of the state to resolve the crisis and to chart a new way forward.

Table of Contents
Preface

1. CRISIS OF THE STATE
1a. A definition of crisis
1b. A statism without a State
1c. State and nation
1d. Hobbes and the Leviathan

2. MODERNITY IN CRISIS
2a. The promises withdrawn
2b. Leaving modernity
2c. Through postmodernity
2d. Deconstruction and denial
2e. The end of history?

3. DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS
3a. Ethics of progress and democracy
3b. An excess of democracy?
3c. Postdemocracy
3d. For a new global order

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      Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Published 6 June 2014
      ISBN-13 9780745680958
      978-0745680958
      ISBN-10 074568095X
      Also in:
      Sociology and anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Today we hear much talk of crisis and comparisons are often made with the Great Depression of the 1930s, but there is a crucial difference that sets our current malaise apart from the 1930s: today we no longer trust in the capacity of the state to resolve the crisis and to chart a new way forward.

      Table of Contents
      Preface

      1. CRISIS OF THE STATE
      1a. A definition of crisis
      1b. A statism without a State
      1c. State and nation
      1d. Hobbes and the Leviathan

      2. MODERNITY IN CRISIS
      2a. The promises withdrawn
      2b. Leaving modernity
      2c. Through postmodernity
      2d. Deconstruction and denial
      2e. The end of history?

      3. DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS
      3a. Ethics of progress and democracy
      3b. An excess of democracy?
      3c. Postdemocracy
      3d. For a new global order

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